Automatic generation of construction schedules based on BIM and rule reasoning

GUO Hongling; YE Xiaotian; REN Qipeng; LUO Zhubang

doi:10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2022.22.001

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Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology) ›› 2022, Vol. 62 ›› Issue (2) : 189-198. DOI: 10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2022.22.001

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Automatic generation of construction schedules based on BIM and rule reasoning

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Construction schedules are key to effective construction management and construction process simulations. Automatically generated schedules can improve scheduling accuracy and efficiency. However, most relevant research has focused on case-based or model-based approaches which cannot accurately match the conditions in other projects and only consider spatial constraints without detailed knowledge rules. This research focuses on the most common hybrid concrete structures. This article describes the coding system and the decomposition of the construction activities suitable for automatic scheduling. The constraint rules between various components or construction activities are then analyzed to infer the logical sequences between them. The building quantities extracted from the building information modeling (BIM) based on the industry foundation classes (IFC) are used to calculate the duration of each construction activity to automatically generate component-level schedules. This then provides the time sequence for construction simulation and automation for intelligent construction equipment.

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construction schedule / automatic generation / building information modeling (BIM) / rule reasoning / constraint relationships

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GUO Hongling, YE Xiaotian, REN Qipeng, LUO Zhubang. Automatic generation of construction schedules based on BIM and rule reasoning[J]. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology). 2022, 62(2): 189-198 https://doi.org/10.16511/j.cnki.qhdxxb.2022.22.001

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